“That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”

Commencement Address at Kenyon College. Gambier, Ohio. May 21, 2005.
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